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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the focus in the questioning of Cottard?
(a) Cottard's suicide attempt.
(b) Cottard's wife.
(c) Tarrou's journal.
(d) Dr Rieux's professional treatment.

2. What is Rieux worried about?
(a) That the trains will stop running.
(b) That the disease will get out of hand and kill half the population.
(c) That the people will panic.
(d) That the disease will affect his wife.

3. Who is also in attendance when Cottard is questioned?
(a) Dr Rieux.
(b) M. Grand.
(c) Inspector Clouseau.
(d) Fr. Pertelote

4. In what city is the story set?
(a) The city of Casablanca.
(b) The city of Oran.
(c) The city of Algiers.
(d) The city of Aran.

5. Why does Rieux ask Tarrou to do this?
(a) Because he wants to write an article about it for the Medical Journal.
(b) Because he is too busy to do it himself.
(c) Because he has terrible handwriting.
(d) Because he doesn't speak English.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else does Dr Rieux muse about in relation to the plague?

2. How does Rieux treat the plague victims?

3. With what does Rieux contrast pictures of the plague through history?

4. An unusual thing about the city is that:

5. What does Dr. Rieux think about the illness?

(see the answer key)

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